Rebirth in 1986: Unforgettable Regrets novel Chapter 56

Chapter 56: Chapter 56 Busy

"One cabinet, how many boards can it be made into?" Zhang Hualian doesn’t know much about these things, and she asked again, "Where will Xiao Yue and Xiao Jun’s clothes go in the future?"

"Our original cabinet was quite large, if we use it just for tabletops, three or four tabletops could be made," Tang Zhengde replied seriously. Although he was not a carpenter, he still knew a bit and added, "Moreover, there is some leftover wood at home, we could patch together another tabletop, and as for the table legs, we will find some more material when required."

"Hualian, I will dismantle this cabinet tomorrow and carry it into town," Tang Zhengde felt more convinced as he thought about it, knowing that buying a table outright would definitely be costly.

No sooner said than done, that very night, Tang Zhengde started dismantling one wardrobe, turning them into individual boards. The next day, early in the morning, he and Zhang Hualian carried the boards to the county.

Thinking that it would be inconvenient to take the boards on the bus, Tang Zhengde and Zhang Hualian carried the boards and a quilt and walked all the way into town, where Tang Zhengde inquired after a carpenter from Tang Mingli and began scouring the market after specifying the desired size of the table.

Since they were starting a restaurant, they had to buy bowls necessarily, ones for morning soup noodles, stir-fried noodles, and they also needed to buy rice bowls, dishes, and soup bowls.

Tang Zhengde and Zhang Hualian compared prices at different vendors, and painfully made the purchases, placing everything into the rented shop space.

Zhang Hualian started cleaning the place up. Yesterday, both Tang Zhengde and Tang Yue did a simple cleanup, but there was still much to do.

Behind the shopfront was the kitchen and the courtyard, and further inside were two rooms and a storage room.

The kitchen had been unused for a long time, and it took Zhang Hualian and her husband the whole afternoon to clean it.

That evening, Tang Mingli came to call them for dinner, and looking at the freshly tidied house, he praised, "Second brother, second sister-in-law, it really turned out well, the house may be old, but the location is great."

"Mingli, do you think people will come to eat here?" Tang Zhengde felt somewhat anxious, always worried about losing money.

"Second brother, when I first started selling clothes, I also feared it would be a loss, but isn’t it thriving now?" Tang Mingli encouraged, "Second brother, later when we buy houses in the county, let’s buy next to each other so we can look out for each other."

"I don’t even dare to think about that," Tang Zhengde laughed naively, "I just hope to earn back the capital and then maybe next year or the year after, we could get Xiao Jun to study in town too."

"Yes, by then, our family of four can be together," Zhang Hualian also looked forward to that day.

In the past, they often stayed together, but Xiao Yue and Xiao Jun didn’t get along well, and it didn’t feel like home.

Now that Xiao Yue has grown up and became sensible, the home atmosphere changed and became particularly warm, and she wished she could see her beautiful daughter and sensible son every day.

The shop hadn’t opened yet, but Tang Zhengde and Zhang Hualian were always busy. Even the walls were painted by Tang Zhengde himself.

Zhang Hualian assisted him. The white walls were painted very cleanly. The thoroughly cleaned kitchen got a fresh coat of paint too, making the whole room brighter.

The day they rented the shop, Tang Yue said that it must be bright and clean.

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